# Congratulations Nova Scotia!!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 15, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364 "2004-03-15T03:30:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/1 "2004-03-15T03:30:48Z")
A fine win tonight, from out of nowhere, to end 43 years of futility! One for the Maritimes; who needs frozen windswept plains anyway? đ
Congrats!
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### Author:  [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/2 "2004-03-15T03:37:51Z")
He took 3 in the 10th? Pretty impressive. Congrats. Hereâs hoping for some more gold coming home from the Worldâs. You know Colleen is bringing some back, so letâs hope for a double.
Could I be anymore non-specific??? Anyone else want to speak in some code?
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### Author:  [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/3 "2004-03-15T03:45:23Z")
> [@Kid\_A](#):
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> Could I be anymore non-specific??? Anyone else want to speak in some code?
Three in the 10th? Damn, I was hoping for an extra end. Was Ferbey worried?
Very unusual to see the leader not throwing skip stones, but obviously effective for them.
Good for Nova Scotia. Next year back to Manitoba where it belongs.
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### Author:  [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/4 "2004-03-15T04:36:57Z")
People in ice houses shouldnât throw stones.
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### Author:  [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/5 "2004-03-15T05:13:53Z")
Three in the tenth _and_ three in the seventh. Nedohin must be kicking himself right now.
âš
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### Author:  [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/6 "2004-03-15T05:47:26Z")
I donât know the game that well but I was watching, with my Mom.
YAY Nova Scotia!
(Is it odd as an Albertan I was cheering for NS?)
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### Author:  [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/7 "2004-03-15T06:27:28Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#):
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> One for the Maritimes; who needs frozen windswept plains anyway? đ
Who needs frozen windswept plains? Nova Scotia, it would seem, since it took a Saskatoon boy to win the Brier for them. đ
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### Author:  [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/8 "2004-03-15T06:54:31Z")
> [@Waenara](#):
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> Three in the tenth _and_ three in the seventh. Nedohin must be kicking himself right now.
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> âš
According to [this article](http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Curling/2004Brier/2004/03/06/372885-cp.html), Nedohin is in fact kicking himself.
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### Author:  [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/9 "2004-03-15T14:05:43Z")
This whole thread is a really funny read if you donât know itâs about curling. I mean:
ââŚit took a Saskatoon boy to win the Brier for them.â
âThree in the tenth and three in the seventh. Nedohin must be kicking himself right now.â
âDamn, I was hoping for an extra end. Was Ferbey worried? Very unusual to see the leader not throwing skip stonesâŚâ
âOne for the Maritimes; who needs frozen windswept plains anyway?â
My first reaction was: âHuh?!?!? Itâs not cricket, so what other strange sport could they be talking about? Badminton?â And then I read the linked article and finally found out what you wacky Canucks were talking about. To me, any sport that includes brooms canât be all bad.
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### Author:  [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/10 "2004-03-15T15:19:04Z")
[sub]grumble mumble gripe moan whine grumble[/sub]
Congrats NS, you were the better team tonight.
Nedohin was horrible.
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/11 "2004-03-15T16:53:37Z")
Just like to point out that it was a red-blooded American who started the thread! đ
'Course, the American in question spent the weekend a) working on perfecting strategies for playing a German board game about âsettlersâ in NĂźrnberg, b) reveling in the comprehensive demolishing City gave to United in the Manchester derby, c) wrestling with the Confederated States of Americaâs railroad for prestige in an alternative post-Civil War race to the West Coast, and d) watching an amazing comeback from four down by the Nova Scotians. Oh, yeah, almost forgot about that âMarch Madnessâ stuff⌠đ
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### Author:  [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/12 "2004-03-15T17:42:15Z")
For you Americans missing out on all this funâŚ
The winning team buys the first round. đ
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### Author:  [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/13 "2004-03-15T18:19:59Z")
> [@Mycroft Holmes](#):
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> This whole thread is a really funny read if you donât know itâs about curling.
Thatâs exactly what I thought about [todayâs](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040315.wcurli03/BNStory/Sports/) Globe and Mail article:
âIn the second, the skip missed on a hit-and-roll with his first one and a run-back on his secondâŚâ
âIn the fourth, after making a tremendous angle-raise, double takeout with his first rock, Dacey wasnât able to remove an Alberta stone with a hack weight hit on his second.â
âAfter Dacey gave up a single to the Alberta team in the eighth, it was Nedohinâs turn to miss as a jammed takeout with his first led the Nova Scotia team to grab threeâŚâ
It _looks_ like English, and I know what all the words mean on their _own_, but this reads like nuclear chemistry to me. Nevertheless, it was a great game, and Iâm glad our hometown guy (kidnapped against his will by nefarious Nova Scotian pirates, no doubt) came through.
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2004, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/14 "2004-03-16T11:46:23Z")
I live close enough to the border that our cable system carries CBC and I enjoy curling. I saw a bit of the match and remember that 3 point seventh where the Alberta skip blew two shots to allow 3 points. Those were the worst Iâve seen since the Olympic fiasco. Curlingâs a great sport and I find the strategy fascinating. Of course, the best thing about having access to CBC is their totally superior Olympic coverage. The second best thing is Don Cherry. The third best is curling.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/15 "2004-03-16T12:07:42Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#):
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> who needs frozen windswept plains anyway? đ
Hey! how else do you think we get to funnel âArctic cold-air massesâ down to our southern neighbours?
Some of us like frozen windswept plains - we live here! Theyâre very zen-like.
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### Author:  [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2004, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/16 "2004-03-18T07:09:19Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> I live close enough to the border that our cable system carries CBC and I enjoy curling. I saw a bit of the match and remember that 3 point seventh **where the Alberta skip** blew two shots to allow 3 points. Those were the worst Iâve seen since the Olympic fiasco. Curlingâs a great sport and I find the strategy fascinating. Of course, the best thing about having access to CBC is their totally superior Olympic coverage. The second best thing is Don Cherry. The third best is curling.
**emphasis added**
[nitpick] The throwing order is usually âleadâ, âsecondâ, âthirdâ and then âskipâ. Although the skip usually throws the last two rocks in an end, this Alberta team has an uncommon arrangment where their skip (Ferby) handles strategy and calls the shots, but throws âthirdâ. The last two rocks are thrown by Nedohin, but he isnât the skip - I think they just call it âfourthâ.
[/nit]
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### Author:  [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2004, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/17 "2004-03-18T11:14:28Z")
> [@Waenara](#):
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> **emphasis added**
>
> [nitpick] The throwing order is usually âleadâ, âsecondâ, âthirdâ and then âskipâ. Although the skip usually throws the last two rocks in an end, this Alberta team has an uncommon arrangment where their skip (Ferby) handles strategy and calls the shots, but throws âthirdâ. The last two rocks are thrown by Nedohin, but he isnât the skip - I think they just call it âfourthâ.
> [/nit]
I think they call him the third, but he throws skip stones.
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2004, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/18 "2004-03-18T11:21:37Z")
OK, I wasnât aware that the fourth isnât always the skip. Sorry. But at least this Yank watches a little curling! Iâve even been known to watch a little 5 pin bowling on CBC.
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### Author:  [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/19 "2004-03-18T16:08:51Z")
Anyone wanting to take up curling down in the States should take a look at the [USCA](http://www.goodcurling.net/) web site. Playing at a state or national level is not unlikely as the number of people, while growing, is still reasonably small. Mind you Iâm stalking from a Canadian perspective when it comes to numbers of people.
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-nova-scotia/234364/20 "2004-03-18T16:49:08Z")
> [@Mycroft Holmes](#):
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> My first reaction was: "Huh?!?!? Itâs not cricket, so what other strange sport could they be talking about?
Speaking of which, [Canadian national cricket captain Joe Harris resigned](http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2004/MAR/097318_CAN_16MAR2004.html) this week.
Now if thatâs not an obscure factoid, I donât know what is!
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